Monday, March 21, 2011

Picky Eaters

Hey it's Ginger! Just wanted to tell you guys about when I went to Red Bank NJ with Caroline to look for Fair Trade items in town. We started out at Pizza Fusion

because we thought the name sounded really cool and because it was a new restaurant in town that both of us were curious about. The waiter discussed all the Fair Trade items that they sold including hot or cold tea and their fair trade flour in the crusts of the pizzas.I got bottled tea (called Honest Tea)and a small plain pizza. The tea was not only fair trade but organic, gluten free, and has no GMO's. As for the taste of the tea I'm not going to lie, it didn't taste like a Snapple like I'm used to. It was a little less sweet but still good. I have bought Honest Tea since then and have grown to like it. If given the choice of Snapple and Honest Tea I would choose Honest Tea not only because it has so many good qualities like being Fair Trade but I've also grown to like the taste a lot.

As for the pizza, it was delicious. Oven baked perfection, in my opinion. Not too greasy or too filling, just right. All the ingredients according to our waiter were all natural and very fresh. I would go back anytime.

All About Us: Ginger & Caroline, Jersey Shore Fair Trade

It has come to our attention that many of our classmates don't know the importance of fair trade, if they know what it is at all.
Fair trade is a social movement focused on worker rights, making sure workers have safe working conditions, fair wages, and avoids child labor.
For example, our classmates hear about people living off of 1 dollar a day, but still wear Nike shoes and Banana Republic attire. For us, this is disturbing in many ways. For they feel bad for these people, but their shopping decisions suggests the opposite.
We are creating this blog to teach people of all ages, including teenagers, about the importance of Fair Trade, and where to shop at places that provide goods that are Fair Trade items.
One of our goals is to try to get people to use their spending to provide social justice.
Not to say we've never shop at some of these non- fair trade stores (yes we both wear Holister and Nike) but if the consumers (aka the shoppers) consider alternatives and make small steps like eating fair trade foods and writing letters to the non- fair trade stores, a big impact could be made.